Domination Chronicles: Loretta Afraid of Bear-Cook on Living in Oglala Lakota Community

Loretta Afraid of Bear-Cook joins Newcomb and d’Errico for a conversation grounded in Oglala Lakota community, language, food, ceremony, and everyday practices of relationship. The episode expands the series by centering living traditions and the work required to sustain them under conditions shaped by domination and modern convenience.

The conversation reminds listeners that resistance is not only a matter of court cases or public statements. It is also carried through language, kinship, seasonal knowledge, food practices, and responsibilities to place. Afraid of Bear-Cook speaks from within community life, showing how Indigenous existence continues through practices that colonial systems have tried to interrupt or replace. For readers of the Doctrine of Discovery Project, this episode is a necessary counterpoint to legal analysis. It shows what domination attacks, but also what persists: relationships, teachings, and ways of being that cannot be reduced to federal categories.

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